SHOPPING

Chicago: Amazon.com is launching a home services marketplace that will connect customers with electricians, plumbers and painters in a move to have its services tied to every product sold on its website.
Amazon Home Services, which will launch on Monday, will allow customers to buy 700 services such as car maintenance,...

San Francisco: Facebook Inc on Wednesday opened up its Messenger service for developers to create apps and for shoppers to communicate directly with retailers, as the Internet company seeks to expand its reach.
The new features mark Facebook's latest effort to transform its mobile messaging service into a full-featured platform with...

New Delhi: Domestic eCommerce major Flipkart today said it will generate over 20 lakh jobs through its marketplace and ancillary services this year.
The Bangalore-based firm expects 60 per cent of this employment to be generated in the logistics and warehousing sector. "Sellers on our marketplace have been directly responsible for...

As online shopping in India and around the world is growing exponentially, the threats that online shoppers face are also increasing. It is always better to err on the side of caution. This helpful infographic guides you on how to keep your money safe while shopping online.
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In the busy metro life of Delhi-NCR, a cup of tea is always soothing. Be it after a long drive or just a long walk with someone special on a drizzly evening, everything is incomplete without a good cup of tea or coffee. On one fine evening driving aimlessly with...

The weekend's here and here are five recommended reads from the intriguing world of technology:
The evolution Of Steve Jobs: Rick Tetzeli, revisits - and attempts to correct - the myth of Steve Jobs. The story of the Apple co-founder "can't be explained by a set of stereotypes that haven't changed...

Seattle: Amazon.com has won approval from US federal regulators to test a delivery drone outdoors, as the e-commerce company pursues its goal of sending packages to customers by air, even as it faces public concern about safety and privacy.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it issued an experimental airworthiness...

New Delhi: The technology driven e-commerce market in India has come of age and is growing rapidly to cross Rs.1 lakh crore by the year-end, an industry report said on Wednesday.
"Growing at 33 per cent, the digital commerce market is set to cross Rs.1 lakh crore by December 2015 from...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's younger brother Prahlad on Tuesday lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre, saying it has "failed" to live up to peoples' expectations and lacked will to resolve their problems. Prahlad participated at a protest here at the Jantar Mantar organised by the...

New Delhi: Amazon is said to be working on a version of its online shopping app for Apple's latest wearable- Apple Watch- that would allow users to shop at the e-commerce site with a single click.
The Amazon shopping app for the Apple Watch will allow consumers to search for products...

New York: Facebook says it is buying shopping search engine TheFind to help boost its advertising business.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in the next few weeks.
TheFind, which was founded in 2006, will shut down and some of its key employees will...

Mumbai: For viewers of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Mumbai's vast Dharavi slum is a byword for poverty, but to online retailer Snapdeal.com it is a battleground for new customers and, it hopes, a source of better margins.
The company's aspirations are backed up by serious investment from the likes of Japan's...

To all men - we're afraid we have some bad news. The women want to let you know that they have found a more-than-satisfactory alternative that attends to most of their needs, and it has to do with one simple thing - Shopping.
Shopping- there was a time when it...

New Delhi: Online purchases made through mobile phones in India have grown by more than 100 percent over the past two years, indicating a steep upward trend in e-commerce propelled by expediency, reveals the MasterCard Online Shopping Survey 2014 released here on Wednesday.
The survey covers 14 countries across Asia Pacific.
China...

Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced bonanza for the poor by including sugar, tea leaves and kerosene in the list of items to be provided through ration shops.
The decision was taken at a review meeting of food and civil supplies department by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Cooperative Minister...

New DelhiExpanding its presence in the high-end fashion segment, online marketplace Snapdeal has acquired luxury fashion portal Exclusively.com for anundisclosed amount.
With this acquisition, the city-based firm that gets a little over $1 billion in gross merchandise value(GMV)from its fashion business expects this figure to touch $2 billion by the end...

Mumbai: E-commerce companies have incurred combined losses of around Rs 1,000 crore due to heavy discounting strategy and this model is not feasible in the long run, a PwC report said.
"Offering lower prices will not be viable in the long term. Despite luring in customers in the initial stages, lower...

Hyderabad: Online retail giant Amazon will set up a warehouse centre and start operations from a leased facility in about two months before its own facility is constructed.
A delegation from Amazon, led by global director and head for Real Estate and Facilities John Schoettler, met Telangana IT Minister K T...

New Delhi: Online shoppers are increasingly using smart devices to shop online with mobile phones and tablets accounting for 22 per cent of the transactions, a study has said.
"Mobile and tablets account for 32 per cent of visits and 22 per cent of transactions on the website and the average...

New Delhi: Italian fashion brand Galvanni is making a foray into the Indian market via FashionAndYou, a fashion and lifestyle website.
The brand will be launched Friday.
Aimed at those who embrace a sporting lifestyle blended with fashion, the entire range of Galvanni shirts, sweaters, polo t-shirts and sweatshirts will be available...

New Delhi: Looking to tap the fast growing e-commerce business in India, a few Rotarians have joined hands to launch a new online shopping site - babumoshay.com for daily needs, including vegetables and fruits, apart from fashion products.
Keeping in mind the increasing number of nuclear families, the portal will have...

New Delhi: From Amazons of the world to Chinese Alibabas to desi Flipkarts, everyone wants to have a pie of the burgeoning e-commerce market in India and consumers are not complaining with sweet sale deals coming their way.
In the process, these e-retailers rubbed the brick-and-mortar traditional retailers wrong way in...

Kolkata: Lured by heavy online discounts and easy home delivery of almost any product at the click of a button, shopping for Indians would never be the same again after 2014.
What was limited to books, gadgets and few accessories in the earlier years, now expanded to include apparel, kitchen items,...

New Delhi: The average annual spending of Indians on online purchases is expected to rise 67 per cent to Rs 10,000 next year, according to a study.
Currently, online shoppers spend around Rs 6,000 a year on average, said the Assocham-PwC study.
About 40 million consumers purchased something online this year and...

New Delhi: It's still a small component of India's Rs 38 trillion ($600 billion) overall retail trade industry. Yet, the e-commerce format with sales of Rs 1 trillion ($16 billion) managed to create a buzz in 2014 like never before - not just with mega promotions but also with mergers,...

Beijing: China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's largest e-commerce company, spent over 1 billion yuan ($160.7 million) combating fake goods and for improving customer protection from the beginning of 2013 to the end of November, the firm said Tuesday.
"From Alibaba Group's perspective, we bear a serious responsibility in this...

Kolkata: Even as online retail sales continue to shoot up with the e-commerce industry expected to touch Rs 216 billion ($3.5 billion) in the current fiscal, the sector has recently come under fire with both manufacturers and consumers questioning the reliability of warranties for online purchases and the consequences of...

New Delhi: Delhi has toppled Maharashtra as the No 1 market where maximum number of mobiles and accessories were sold online this year, e-commerce major eBay said today.
Last year, Maharashtra was the top market of eBay.
According to eBay's Census 2014, tier-II and -III cities are driving the e-commerce market in...